Hugh's the boss
2008-05-29 08:42
Brandon Faber, News24 User
With inflation at a five-year high thanks to an equally well-performing oil price and Tito waving his finger at us from the lofty heights of chairmanship, it is easy for most of us to want to end the misery by ingesting 30 grams of A-grade Columbian marching powder... the same type Thabo uses, you know?
Of course I am just kidding.
Why if the big president was doing the great line dance to disco-town he would have displayed some tell-tale symptoms like paranoia, irrational behaviour, a shortened attention span and, of course, the inability to present reasonable argument.
I haven't seen any evidence of that and neither has outgoing bastion of reason and accountability, Essop Pahad. Hahahahaha - the joke's on us people! Join me as I march to parliament to hand over a stick-figurine drawn on a used Twinsavers Tissue - twin-ply, nogals. I had a memorandum arguing some point but, I think, Thabo will appreciate the drawing more.
But wait gentle souls, I digress - this here manic-depressive missive has nothing to do with nasal narcotics or the debilitating daily grind we are being subjected to. No brothers and sisters. In the midst of mediocrity, in our darkest hour I have found a hero to aspire to. A man amongst mamparras.
Raise your coffee mugs then, ladies and gentlemen, to Hugh Glenister.
Of course some of you will not know who this man is. I suspect you are the type of South African that watches Egoli, thinks SABC news is balanced and calls someone a racist when you have no argument worth a Zim dollar.
Lone soul with a backbone
Hugh Glenister, for the benefit of the many-many-many citizens the dear Lord skipped when dishing out talents, is the lone soul with the backbone to raise 1 X middle finger to the powers that be for the good of all of us.
He's the big chief telling government where to shove it in its bid to close down the Scorpions.
After the Pretoria High Court yesterday struck his case from the roll he turned around ala Chuck Norris and gave any notion of calling it quits a roundhouse kick.
"I am not stopping now," he said as thunder cracked over the Highveld - his cape gently swaying in the wind. "I will take my case the Constitutional Court".
Look closely kids, here's someone willing to fight for what's right with tooth, nail and pubic hair if he has to. The world needs people like this - we need more, in fact. Where's the Ruperts, Sexwales and Motsepes of this country?
Hugh Glenister deserves a medal, a statue, a spot next to Vernon Koekemoer in the next Nandos ad for crying out loud.
Make T-shirts in his honour, put his face on your office cup and join the national "****-you-we-will-not-go-quietly-into-the-night" league.
Symbolic raising of middle fingers at noon today. VIVA!
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